our main story that is dominating through the course of today. nato meeting going on in the g7 members ratified a wide ranging security pact with ukraine and that is a significant development. we have heard a variety of parties in the main leaders and news conferences, we are waiting forjoe biden and let us show you live pictures of the university because joe us show you live pictures of the university becausejoe biden is expected to appear there in the next few minutes in those pictures and introductory remarks are being made we are expecting his final news conference at the summit today and so, both of those are expected in the university for support. but we will do is we will leave those pictures there on the screen to you as we move on in terms of what we take you through in the next couple of minutes but you will not miss a minute there ofjoe biden just as soon as he starts to speak. our europe editor has been catching up with nato s secretary general as result of that n
i m kasie hunt, don t go anywhere. cnn this morning starts right now. . good morning, everyone, glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. u.s. officials believe iran may be getting nervous about the proxy groups it funds going too far, after a cruise missile launched by the houthi rebels came within a mile of a destroyer. the one group of voters giving president biden the edge, we re going to explain who they are. and social media ceos taking a bipartisan beating on capitol hill accused of failing to protect our kids online. mark zuckerberg publicly apologized. it s not enough for many of the families who have been harmed. cnn this morning starts right now. and we begin with news this morning that we are learning iran s leaders are getting increasingly nervous about their proxy forces in the region after they killed u.s. troops. u.s. officials tell cnn s deadly drone attack in jordan caught iran by surprise and concerned its leaders
should be really proud of what you ve done, and i m very proud of you as your friend, it s awesome i m proud and happy to do it with you yes, that s the best part thank you to all of you at home for joining us this hour if you re a superstitious person as i am, maybe you re familiar with the notion bad things happen in threes for example, you might get a flat tire and spill coffee all over yourself or sprain your ankle on the same day. or if you re donald trump you may grapple with a major setback in a federal investigation and be faced to face the specter of a state investigation in the same week. we learned late this afternoon trump s vice president mike pence will in fact testify before the special counsel s grand jury investigating january 6th. trump and even pence himself they had tried and failed to block that testimony, but in a statement today an aide for pence said pence will comply with the subpoena. will comply with the subpoena. a federal judge in d.c. ruled p
ready. have supplies for five, seven days. having everything you need, medicine, food, water. you have to take it serious. we have activated the florida national guard. they are activating 2,500 guards men at the moment. and if there is a need for more, we could do more. we have meteorologist standing by in the weather center. we saw that 5:00 a.m. update, now officially a hurricane. what is the latest on ian s track across the caribbean toward florida here. the system has everything it takes to really amplify over the next couple days and strengthen possibly to a category 4. that s the concern. all the environmental concerns absolutely conducive for rapid development of the storm system. we take a look at this because category 1 right now about 100 miles south of the cayman islands, about 300 islands south of the tip of cuba. the governments of these countries have taken this seriously. hurricane warnings have been prompted in advance of this feature. northwest caribbe
that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, it s been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, don t do this. we don t want to see you do this, but they wouldn t exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the president s aides try to walk this back saying he wasn t articulating any kind of change in his policy, but it is a policy difference for him to come out and say explicitly they would do that. not just that they would provide arms to ukraine or arms to taiwan and weapons to taiwan like they are doing with ukraine, but saying they would go one step further, john. of course, it s a statement the president has come close to saying before. he articulated it very bluntly with no clarifications, no caveats. you can have aides walk it bac